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Marlene Epp demonstrates that the meaning of Mennonite food lies within the multiple identities of the eater. Spanning the globe, from the nineteenth century to present day, Eating Like a Mennonite concludes that Mennonite food identities develop from adoptions, adaptations, and attitudes in diverse times and places.

A collection of around 350 letters bound for London from Jamaica reveals much about colonial life in 1756. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times paints a picture of the daily life of poor and middling whites, free people of colour, and enslaved people against the backdrop of transatlantic slavery in Jamaica and the eighteenth-century British Empire.

Stephen Ward combines history and evolutionary psychology for a comprehensive view of the social irrationality plaguing democracies. Human nature has both extreme Darwinian traits promoting competition and sociable traits of cooperation and empathy. When social tensions trigger the former, they become maladaptive and dangerous.

Philippe Bieler, born in 1933 and a member of the silent generation, was nonetheless raised by his outspoken mother and well-connected father to not only be seen but also heard. Fortune Favours a Bieler looks back on the past century as a period of luck and opportunity for those who would seize it.

To maintain morale amongst soldiers in the wretched trenches of World War I, the French army provided regular rations of wine and other alcohol that became a defining feature of French soldiers' experience. A Thirst for Wine and War explores the French army's strategic distribution of alcohol as a method of emotional and behavioural control.

Jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894-1977), Paul Robeson's first accompanist and teacher to Oscar Peterson, came to prominence near the end of his life for his exceptional career. Statesman of the Piano makes his unpublished autobiography widely available for the first time, with commentary from historians, archivists, musicians, and cultural critics.

This volume considers the various groups that make up total defence forces: the military, reservists, civil defence servants, and contractors working for private military and security companies. It offers an essential analysis of civilian-military personnel integration and collaboration toward defence goals in the twenty-first century.

Fashioning Acadians analyzes the clothing of early Acadians through the innovative reconstruction of dress and accessories found in a new analysis of archaeological excavations. The book discusses what the clothing reveals about Acadian lives, their material cultures, and the influence of intersecting fashion systems in colonial spaces.

Picturing the Game showcases the gifted, forward-thinking graphic journalists throughout hockey's history whose bold aesthetic and deft draughtsmanship could always make the butt of their satire look perfectly asinine. Their work embodied a truly acerbic spirit that was nothing short of groundbreaking, and the game is better for it.

Drawing on interviews and focus groups with nearly 200 women from a range of backgrounds and occupations - including healthcare workers, educators, and parents - Conscripted to Care reveals how structural inequalities put women on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response, yet with inadequate resources and little voice in decision-making.

In James Clarke Hook Juliet McMaster tracks the life and career of the brilliant yet underappreciated Victorian painter, from his rigorous training at the Royal Academy Schools, his travelling studentship in Florence and Venice, and his work as a historical painter, to the discovery of his métier as an inspired painter of contemporary rural and coastal scenes.

This new collection on Michael Ondaatje's work - the first in twenty years - offers an innovative analysis of the author's oeuvre from 1967 to the present. In twenty essays, contributors explore Ondaatje's poetry, novels, and work in film, highlighting the transnational, postcolonial, and diasporic issues apparent in his writings.

Our social democracies and welfare states are facing challenges that threaten their very survival. Boyer argues that a true social democracy requires a clear definition and a refocusing of the roles of the public and private sectors in the provision of public and social goods and services - a reimagining that keeps citizens' best interest in focus.

A strong theme of journeys is threaded through Take the Compass. In a sense, every poem is itself a journey - through cities and their outskirts, to rivers, forests, and graveyards. They travel in time into the troubled present, across decades into childhood, and into our perilous collective futures, seeking guides for these explorations.

Politics and the English Country House explores the relationship between the country house and the changing British political landscape of the eighteenth century. Essays explore how the country house was a stage for politicking, a vehicle for political advancement, and a symbol of party allegiance and political values.

Between 2010 and 2017, Canada experienced an efflorescence of Greek tragedy, led by independent Montreal theatre company Scapegoat Carnivale's energetic performances of Euripides's Medea and Bacchae and Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus. The performances featured crisp new translations by co-artistic director Joseph Shragge, large casts, and full-throated sung choruses. Scapegoat Carnivale's trilogy of these familiar but rarely performed plays is at the core of this volume, which includes all three novel play scripts, the company's stage directions, and helpful annotations that elucidate Greek names and cultural references and place the textual choices in the context of the productions themselves as well as the long manuscript traditions germane to each tragedy. The result sheds light on both the ancient Greek texts and contemporary performance practice, as do accompanying essays introducing the reader to Greek tragedy in fifth-century Athens, reception theories, each play's themes and cultural resonances, and how Scapegoat's approach to each play fits into broader global trends of performance and reception.Scapegoat Carnivale's Tragic Trilogy invites readers from all backgrounds to encounter these plays, whether they are looking at Greek tragedy for the first time or the fiftieth. It gives everyone the tools to understand where these plays came from, offers insights into how they can and should be performed now, and shows why they are more relevant than ever in contemporary theatre and in life.

Neurowaves demonstrates how the brain's inner time and its dynamics produce the mind and mental features like thoughts and feelings. Northoff proposes that the world is structured by waves of time, and the passing of these waves through our brains - neurowaves - is the basis of our mental experiences of the world.

Forty per cent of the world's population lives in federal countries, each facing their own crises and successes. Rethinking Decentralization explores what makes a successful federal government by centering the unique role of public attitude in maintaining the fragile institutions of federalism.

Western civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwicky's trenchant exploration of the roots of global cultural and ecological collapse. Once Upon a Time in the West documents how a narrow epistemological style has left us blind to critical features of reality, and how the terrifying consequences of that shuttered vision are now unfolding.

Outspoken interrogates the meaning and practice of being outspoken in a world of right-wing populism, global capitalism, and climate emergency. Some of the world's most radical thinkers - Rosi Braidotti, Henry A. Giroux, Amelia Jones, and Slavoj Zizek, among others - chart progressive courses for political antagonism and social intervention.

Though forensic genetic technologies are upheld as important tools of justice the development of these technologies has been accomplished through the ongoing genetic servitude of Indigenous Peoples. Forensic Colonialism explores how these controversial methods serve only privileged populations, and keep others exploited and criminalized.

Capitalism XXL calls for changing the rules of capitalism in order to tame giant corporations and restore the individual to the world economy. Noels proposes an approach that considers human dimensions and describes a sustainable future economy that will not burden subsequent generations with debt, social inequality, and environmental damage.

Around 1600, Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to English voyages beyond Europe's boundaries. In a dazzling account of an editorial project seminal to England's encounter with the world and the nation's idea of itself, Fuller unlocks Hakluyt's work for modern readers.

Firmly rooted in frostbitten, fire-haunted landscapes that are at once psychological, emotional, and fiercely real, Patrick Errington's first collection traces the brittle boundaries between presence and absence, keeping and killing, cruelty and tenderness.

In Edward Carson's provocative new work, the poetic moving parts of movingparts confront and breathe new life into what's true and what's not in Aesop's fable The Fox and the Crow, as well as the shifting, often fragmentary ground between what's said and what's not about identity and intimacy in Sappho's lyrics.

The first scholarly book dedicated to this Canadian landmark, Casa Loma brings to light a wealth of hitherto unpublished archival images and documentation of the house's visual and material culture, weaving together a textured account of the design, use, and life of this unique building over the course of the twentieth century.

The "Middle East" has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. Few question the origin of the term or the boundaries of the region, commonly understood to have emerged in the twentieth century after World War I. Guillemette Crouzet offers a new account in Inventing the Middle East. The book traces the idea of the Middle East to a century-long British imperial zenith in the Indian subcontinent and its violent overspill into the Persian Gulf and its hinterlands. Encroachment into the Gulf region began under the expansionist East India Company. It was catalyzed by Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and heightened by gunboat attacks conducted in the name of pacifying Arab "pirates." Throughout the 1800s the British secured this crucial geopolitical arena, transforming it into both a crossroads of land and sea and a borderland guarding British India's western flank. Establishing this informal imperial system involved a triangle of actors in London, the subcontinent, and the Gulf region itself. By the nineteenth century's end, amid renewed waves of inter-imperial competition, this nexus of British interests and narratives in the Gulf region would occasion the appearance of a new name: the Middle East. Charting the spatial, political, and cultural emergence of the Middle East, Inventing the Middle East reveals the deep roots of the twentieth century's geographic upheavals.